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> Most jobs that involve typing benefit from being able to type quickly. Maybe. If you type 10,000 words per minute but your entire module gets refactored out
by Kon-Peki 4y ago
> Most jobs that involve typing benefit from being able to type quickly.
Maybe. If you type 10,000 words per minute but your entire module gets refactored out of the codebase next week, is your productivity anything higher than 0?
Multiple times in my career, months or even years worth of my team's work was tossed in the trash because some middle manager decided to change directions. A friend of mine is about ready to quit at AMZN because the product he was supposed to launch last year keeps getting delayed so they can rewrite pieces of it. Maybe some people should have thought more and typed less.
- xyzzyz 4y ago> Maybe. If you type 10,000 words per minute but your entire module gets refactored out of the codebase next week, is your productivity anything higher than 0? If you spent less time typing that module that later went to trash, you are, in aggregate, more productive than someone who spent more time typing the same module. This sort of argument only makes sense if you assume that there is some sort of correlation, where people who are slower at typing are more likely to make better design or business decisions, all else being equal. I certainly have no reason to believe it to be true. Remember we are talking about the issue in context of someone who is slow at typing because of arthritis. Does arthritis make people better at software design, or communication? I don’t think so.